What I honestly can’t comprehend is why professors use pronouns to refer to students in class. I can’t think of a situation where it would even happen. I refer to students by name. “As Jessica said. . . Ben, would you like to add anything?”, Etc. Saying instead “as she pointed out” sounds weird. And kind of rude. Like I can’t remember a student’s name. I very honestly don’t get it.

Of course, this doesn’t concern me at all because we don’t use personal pronouns in Spanish. It’s a grammar mistake. But I still wonder what makes people think this is an issue.

99% it’s not about that, it’s about giving up your own judgement in favor of what your ideological betters decide
and your ideological superiors have decided (this week) that there is an infinite number of gender pronouns in English and your job is to keep track of them

I suppose the idea is to proactively acknowledge gender identities. Most professors might not actually use these pronouns in every day parlance but asking students to introduce themselves with their names and preferred pronouns is a way of creating a safe space for gender non-confirming persons.

In other words, it’s nothing but virtue-signaling. Of course, this kind of virtue-signaling is very exclusionary towards everybody who doesn’t have an immense economic, educational and cultural capital. Plus, it’s punitive towards immigrants. But that of course is the whole point.

Progressives would never advocate limiting immigration – which is why they make sure there are as many roadblocks to them becoming successful as possible (also see multicultural policies meant to impede assimilation necessary for success)